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Wheel-Nut
10-03-12, 05:08 PM
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/1-000-mile-hour-rocket-car-clears-preliminary-test-6259362

The test brought together three components; the rocket itself, a tank containing the peroxide-based rocket fuel and a Cosworth Formula One engine used purely to pump the fuel into the combustion chamber.

Gnam
10-03-12, 08:41 PM
Bloodhound will attack 1,000 mph on a dry lake bed called Hakskeen Pan in South Africa's Northern Cape region in 2014.
No Bonneville? For shame.

Is Richard Noble related to the guy who started Noble Automotive, Lee Noble?

cameraman
10-03-12, 10:54 PM
Bonneville isn't nearly long enough for that beast.

Elmo T
10-04-12, 08:05 AM
I get better, bigger, stronger, faster... but this is all that comes to mind on this one:

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